MTV News reports that “more than half of this year’s crop of finalists — including Danny Gokey, Michael Sarver, Kris Allen, Scott MacIntyre, Matt Giraud and Lil Rounds — either have a strong affiliation with the church or are worship leaders in their communities.” The
From The Washington Post: The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an
More ideas from Minnesota. Secular Bible Study casts wide net: As if it’s not unusual enough that Trinity United Methodist Church and the Minnesota Atheists have joined forces to promote a project, wait till you hear what the project is: a Bible study class. Granted,
Michael Spencer, in The Coming Evangelical Collapse, asks, “Is all of this [evangelical collapse] a bad thing?” Evangelicalism doesn’t need a bailout. Much of it needs a funeral. But what about what remains? Is it a good thing that denominations are going to become largely
Thanks to Rich Shipe for alerting us to Information Age Prayer, a site that will pray your prayers for you–audibly and regularly–for a subscription fee. For $3.95 a day, your computer can recite the Lord’s Prayer for you. It can pray for your child for
A Chinese production company is turning “Das Kapital”–the treatise by Marx and Engels that expounds the internal contradictions of capitalism and sets forth the foundations of communism–into a Broadway-style musical! China to bring Das Kapital to life on Beijing stage |guardian.co.uk: You’ve read the book,
More predictions from Michael Spencer in The Coming Evangelical Collapse: •The emerging church will largely vanish from the evangelical landscape, becoming part of the small segment of progressive mainline Protestants that remain true to the liberal vision. •Aggressively evangelistic fundamentalist churches will begin to disappear.
My distaste for the AIG bonuses is related to my bigger distaste for the whole economic bailout, but it is unseemly for Congress to become a pitchfork-wielding mob. Confiscating compensation and overturning contracts–that the congressional bailout bill specifically permitted!–will have all kinds of unintended consequences,
A doctor in England is arguing that the bodies of aborted fetuses would be a good source of cells that could be grown into organs for transplants. Read this for details and some surprising reactions.
What’s with President Obama’s reliance on teleprompters–not only for formal speeches but for brief announcements, introductions of appointees, and informal remarks? It is reportedly getting embarrassing, as technicians have to do all of this setup in front of a waiting press corps and invited guests
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